Nonmoral |
You are at home one day when the mail arrives. You receive a letter from a company that provides financial services. You have heard of this company, which has a good reputation. They have invited you to invest in a mutual fund. The minimum investment for this fund is $1,000 |
You already know a lot about this particular mutual fund. It has performed poorly over the past few years. Based on what you know, there is no reason to think that it will perform any better in the future |
Would you invest $1,000 in this mutual fund in order to make money? |
No |
Moral‐Personal |
A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five workers, and will kill them if it keeps going. You are on a footbridge over the tracks, in between the approaching trolley and the five workers. Next to you on this footbridge is a stranger who is very large |
The only way to save the lives of the five workers is to push this stranger off the bridge and onto the tracks below where his large body will stop the trolley. The stranger will die if you do this, but the five workers will be saved |
Would you push the stranger onto the tracks to save the five workers? |
Yes |
Moral‐Impersonal |
You are the night watchman in a hospital. One night, an accident in the building next door makes deadly chemicals enter the hospital's air ducts. If you don't do anything, these fumes will enter a room with three patients in it, and they will all die |
The only way to save these three patients from dying is to hit a certain switch. This will keep the fumes out of the room with the three patients in it. Instead, the fumes will enter a room with a single patient in it, and he will die |
Would you allow the fumes to enter the room with three patients so that the single patient will live? |
No |